Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.